An article about the somewhat peculiar relationship between Lausanne and its few beggars. There are around 60 of them at any given point in time (not much), a few of them are Rroma, mostly from one region of Romania, and Lausanne is in a love hate relationship with them.
A lot of noise for a small problem…
A Study conducted on Slovak Media by the Media Academy in Bratislava and a Rroma organisation – Romano Kher – shows that the Slovak Media have a strong bias in their presentation of Rroma and Refugees. Negative stereotypes prevail in both cases.
Unfortunately not surprising.
According to a report of the Roma Education Fund, only 20% of Rroma complete their secondary education.
20% of what … According to the Hungarian official statistics, there are less than 200’000 Rroma in Hungary. According to the same government, there are more poor Rroma than that and actually, there are 600’000 Rroma in Hungary. The reality is that there are around 800’000 Rroma in Hungary.
So, which 20%?
The movie Aferim on Rroma slavery in Romania is still going strong!
A festival in Romania – for the New Year!
On the first day of the year, there is good and bad … And the bad, while still having happened in 2015 says that there is work still to be done.
In Gyöngyöspata, a village in North Eastern Hungary, a Rroma house was set ablaze. It is the sixth time this year, and no culprits have been arrested. This is not acceptable!
Some interesting numbers in Serbia and on education. The census counted 147’000 Rroma in Serbia, or rather, 147’000 people declared themselves or were rated as such in the survey. This represents 2.1% of the population in Serbia. Generally, one counts that there are about 10% of Rroma in that country. A bit more.
The ones who were registered have a bleak future with very low education (only one in a thousand will make it to university).
Bleak but not the full picture.
An action was started in Germany against the deportation of refugees from “safe-countries” who have been in Germany for a long time.
PLEASE SUPPORT!
In Slovenia, kindergartens are not mandatory and can close overnight. With the end of European funding, many kindergartens are closing, especially in places with a high Rroma minority.
A SHAME!
Another article on the Czech survey of minorities and foreigners (see also http://praguemonitor.com/2015/12/17/poll-roma-are-lazy-muslims-violent): This time, with more details.
SCARY!
An article on the Roma Education Fund and the stipends it gives out. Here on Czech students.
A sordid story of a mal prostitute from Romania and his client and violence. The prostitute slit the throat of the client in whose flat he was living, killed the dogs and torched the flat.
OK, it is crime. What is the relevance here of the fact that the two criminals were Rroma? Does it add anything or does it just strengthen stereotypes?
Slovakia was slammed by the UN for its state violence against Rroma.
About time!
A poll in the Czech Republic on ethnic groups and nations gives the expected results: The demonstration that Czech are profoundly prejudiced and also probably are not exactly well endowed in their heads …
SHAME!
An interview of Kenan Emini, president of the Roma anti-discrimination Network Göttigen on the forced repatriation of Rroma to so-called sagfe countries such as Kosovo.
In eine gefährliche Zukunft: Leiter des Roma Anti-Diskriminierungsnetzwerkes über Abschiebung. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung. 09.12.2015. http://gera.otz.de/web/lokal/politik/detail/-/specific/In-eine-gefaehrliche-Zukunft-Leiter-des-Roma-Anti-Diskriminierungsnetzwerkes-ue-1936862078
The former French President, Nicolas Sarkozy again missed a good opportunity to remain silent. He again fumed against immigration, refugees, and Rroma.
Pity that France did not close their border in 1956… He would be playing with Orban in Hungary nowadays!
The Geneva police went to investigate a case of human trafficking – a man accused to have sold his invalid son to go and beg in Geneva. As usual, stereotypes prevail. No one has so far proven that there are criminal clans engaged in begging. There are families who live from that, but this is about it. And it is not a business – not for 20 CHF per day.
A German court in Göttingen decided that two families of Rroma from the Kosovo must return as they did not integrate in Germany.
SHAME!
First, the Germans recognised the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo and de-facto expulsion of all minorities, with less than 10% of the original Rroma still living there, and now, 16 years after the facts, people are sent back.
PROTEST!
A documentary on Bulgarian Rroma was shown in Bordeaux in France. It highlighted the issue of illegal buildings, a topic that was often in the press lately.
An interesting interview of Dalma Dojcsàk, of the Hungarian Union for Civil Liberties on the role of Hungarian Medias on the refugee question in that country.
Read the paragraph on Rroma too!
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